The immigration triffid is growing. Eradicate it

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Even the Labour leader seems to believe – wrongly – that foreigners (a) take British jobs and (b) drive down wages

How do some arguments go from being little poddy things, which hang about the phrases of barely noticed people, to become knotty-limbed masses of mental vegetation that strangle the life out of competitors? Watch and you can see one growing at the moment. It colonised sections of the Right long ago, but now it is springing up on the Left too. And it’s to do with immigration.

There was plenty of triffid-sprouting at the Labour Party conference. Lord Glasman, the progenitor of Blue Labour and deep thinker on behalf of the younger Miliband, pronounced on the subject of incomers. He